How to find the symmetric and skew symmetric part of a specified matrix?

Thanks

[John Staine]

Given a 2x2 matrix Z how would I code to find the matrices P & Q given by the symmetric and skew symmetric parts of Z?

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

A_sym = (A+A.')/2;

A_anti = (A-A.')/2;

The .' operation is the transpose.